h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

..old just un-backlogged journal entries before uncluttering my page by removing them I found it mildly amusing quite how much the ethos of the journal entry I intended to write clashes violently with journal entries two years ago.

The journal entry I was going to write, then, went something like this...

I have in fact managed to get so drunk that, the morning after having snuck into more than one (two.. three.. four.. ) college bars in oxford (none of the colleges of which I have any affiliation with. ), I managed to almost fall down the steps of worcester college after having got up and decided I should go home at about 11. .. and from the way I've been staggering around the house, the alcohol still hasn't left my system now. Oh dear.

Having spilt red wine on my laptop keyboard (are we noticing a pattern here?), the blasted thing (lovely piece of technology that it is, when it works) is .. uh.. well, somewhere being repaired, hard drive excepted (the hard drive is upstairs), and I only have access to the paltry collection of music I copied onto my proxy server hurriedly yesterday morning. However, listening to the La ci Darem La Mano from don Gioganni is still gorgeous on my Sennheisers. *rapturously blissed-out *. I can only pray that my laptop comes back soon so that I can listen to my puccini again. (puccini being one of the many things I didn't copy.. I only have mozart, beethoven, and verdi. *sniff*)

I think my next never-to-be-fulfilled ambition (aside from buying myself a Yamaha vmax) is going to be to build myself a headphone amplifier (preferably one with some crossfeed circuitry of some sort). I'm really getting into this headphone thing. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this, but I really need some cds; I'm starting to notice mp3 compression artefacts in my lower bitrate files more than ever on expensive headphones.. whilst on my AKG K-66s, 128kbit files were at least bearable, they're a bit annoying on nicer cans.